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Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.craciun at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 19:34:03 GMT 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 9:16 PM solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 02:20:57PM +0200, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > > > (Although I think the change of adopting anything besides TLS is > > closer to 0 at this moment, which I would say is a shame...) > > You are pretty well right about this (and I won't even argue too > strongly the fact that it's kind of a shame). > > I really hate to do anything like shutting this line of discussion down, > especially after you have already invested so much effort into > implementing a proof of concept. But the truth is that I think it's too > late in the game for this kind of change. Can I still keep this thread "open", at least to give a "theoretical"alternative? (Just talking about the alternative, although not usingit, could give us an insight of what might be nice to have in a futureiteration.) (I don't think I'll be posting much on this, except after I get somefeedback from the cryptographers community.) > Replacing TLS with *anything* else would completely break every existing > piece of Gemini software, which is a non-trivial amount, written by many > different people of varying degrees of continuing activity in the > project. It's not like there are hundreds of client and server implementations... :) > There is a very real chance that this kind of change would > introduce a permanent schism between "New Gemini" and "Old Gemini" when > a subset of servers (in both senses of the word) and clients were not > updated. Not only would software break, but I imagine a lot of > participants in the projet would be unhappy as well. I worry that the > community is too small and fraile to survive what would effectively be a > fork. This is perhaps true; although as said, with strong consensus, Idon't think that would happen. Ciprian.